Laravel

Saturday 14th October 2023

How to speed up your Laravel test suite by using the GitHub Actions cache

When you're working in software development, especially if you are part of a team, it's good practice to implement Continuous Integration "CI"; continually running your test suite after each...

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Sunday 9th July 2023

How to add a hash index to a column in a Laravel migration

MySQL supports several different types of index, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. The most common types are b-tree and hash. The default b-tree index type is useful for range...

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Saturday 22nd May 2021

Using MySQL error messages to ensure randomly generated strings are unique

For my home project GoStatic each deployment has a unique, randomly generated URL. Example: https://er34oltia2yqkyvl.gostatic.app The URL is generated using Laravel's Str::random()...

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